TPIE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK 



Supplies will be donated by the following: Ritz-Carlton Hotel, 

 Vanderbilt Hotel, The German Club, Sherry's, St. Regis Hotel,' 

 McAlpin Hotel, Plaza Hotel, and the Biltmore Hotel. 



The following will kindly loan articles: John Wanamaker 

 Store ; the entrance to the Tea Garden, by the Interior Decorat- 

 ing Department. Mr. Paul Manship : statuary. Messrs. Wood- 

 row & Marketus : laurel, moss and ferns. Julius Roehrs Co., 

 Inc. : plants. Messrs. Bobbink & Atkins : plants. F. R. Pierson 

 Co. : plants. Messrs. John Young & Co. : plants. Mr. Paul S. 

 Bolger : all kitchen fixtures. New York Botanical Garden ; plants. 

 The proceeds of the Tea Garden will be divided between the 

 New York Chapter of the American Red Cross and the European 

 War Relief Committees Cooperating. The portion of the Red 

 Cross will go toward the payment of equipment for Red Cross 

 Hospital Units. Three of these units, of 500 beds each, have 

 been assigned to New York City in the plan for preparedness. 

 The stafifs of the New York Hospital, Bellevue Hospital and the 

 Presbyterian Hospital have volunteered for these units. The 

 equipment for each unit costs $24,000, or $72,000 for the three ; 

 of this amount $38,000 has already been given. 



THE JANUARY EXHIBITION 



This exhibition was held at the American Museum of Natural 

 History on Wednesday, the nineteenth, from i to 5. Premiums 

 were offered for cut orchid blooms, carnations, sweet peas, Schi- 

 santhus, and snapdragons. Many high-school students were at- 

 tending lectures at the Museum that day, so the attendance at the 

 exhibition was unusually large. 



The classes for cut orchid blooms were open to all. Mr. 

 Clement Moore, J. P. Mossman, gardener, made an unusually fine 

 display in the first class, winning the first prize. As an expres- 

 sion of appreciation, a special prize of a silver medal was awarded 

 this exhibit on account of its unusual excellence. In the second 

 class for cut orchid blooms Mrs. F. A. Constable, James Stuart, 

 gardener, won the first prize. The whole center table was filled 

 with a display of orchid blooms. It was one of the best exhibits 

 of these flowers ever seen in the Museum, and was much admired. 



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